Pafford
Capt. Pafford Passes Away
Capt. J. W. Pafford died at 1 o'clock Saturday at his home in the southwestern portion of the city, after a serious illness of seven weeks duration. Though everything that medical skill and careful tender nursing could exert, was done for him, he gradually grew weaker until the end. Capt. Pafford was about sixty-seven years of age and was born and reared in the state of Virginia, a state, every foot of whose soil is stained with the blood of heroes. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted under the "Stars and bars," and for four years, with those thousands of Southern sons, followed that stainless banner as a "pillar of clouds by day and a pillar of fire by night." He was under the leadership of Stonewall Jackson until that "weird genius of the battlefield" fell in the flush of brilliant victory on the blood-soaked plains of Chancellorsville.
In the fall of 1870 Capt. Pafford emigrated from the Old Dominion state to Texas and settled near Weston. Later he removed to Rhea Mills and about ten years ago moved to this city. Capt. Pafford has been married three times. His first wife was Miss Jennie McClure, whom he married in Virginia and who died after their removal to Texas. His second wife was Mrs. Martha Duncan and after her death in this city he married Mrs. Kate Yeager who survives him. He is also survived by one child, a daughter, Mrs. Ella Hedgecoxe, wife of Walter Hedgecoxe of Ponder, Denton county, and she has been here for several days attending her father's bedside. Capt. Pafford served four years as sheriff of Collin county, from 1898 to 1902, and discharged the duties of the office with all that high courage and honest devotion to duty which ever characterized him as a youthful soldier upon a score of hard fought battlefields. He was a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a true and honored Odd Fellow, and a member of J. W. Throckmorton Camp U. C. V.
Funeral services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian church Sunday morning at 10 o'clock conducted by the pastor, Rev. C. L. Dickey. Burial at Walnut Grove cemetery Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. February 21, 1907
Capt. J. W. Pafford died at 1 o'clock Saturday at his home in the southwestern portion of the city, after a serious illness of seven weeks duration. Though everything that medical skill and careful tender nursing could exert, was done for him, he gradually grew weaker until the end. Capt. Pafford was about sixty-seven years of age and was born and reared in the state of Virginia, a state, every foot of whose soil is stained with the blood of heroes. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted under the "Stars and bars," and for four years, with those thousands of Southern sons, followed that stainless banner as a "pillar of clouds by day and a pillar of fire by night." He was under the leadership of Stonewall Jackson until that "weird genius of the battlefield" fell in the flush of brilliant victory on the blood-soaked plains of Chancellorsville.
In the fall of 1870 Capt. Pafford emigrated from the Old Dominion state to Texas and settled near Weston. Later he removed to Rhea Mills and about ten years ago moved to this city. Capt. Pafford has been married three times. His first wife was Miss Jennie McClure, whom he married in Virginia and who died after their removal to Texas. His second wife was Mrs. Martha Duncan and after her death in this city he married Mrs. Kate Yeager who survives him. He is also survived by one child, a daughter, Mrs. Ella Hedgecoxe, wife of Walter Hedgecoxe of Ponder, Denton county, and she has been here for several days attending her father's bedside. Capt. Pafford served four years as sheriff of Collin county, from 1898 to 1902, and discharged the duties of the office with all that high courage and honest devotion to duty which ever characterized him as a youthful soldier upon a score of hard fought battlefields. He was a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a true and honored Odd Fellow, and a member of J. W. Throckmorton Camp U. C. V.
Funeral services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian church Sunday morning at 10 o'clock conducted by the pastor, Rev. C. L. Dickey. Burial at Walnut Grove cemetery Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. February 21, 1907
